The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

MySmallWorldof4

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I agree!! The kids don't bully just because it's fun...there's a reason behind it. I think the problem at our school anyway is that parents weren't receptive about hearing their little angel was behaving inappropriately. The mother I talked to when her son told DS he was going to kill him and his whole family laughed it off and said it was probably just something he heard from a video game. The mother I approached when her son was spitting on, tripping, and snapping DS with a towel said she felt like it was up to the teachers to deal with since it was happening at school. She didn't think she needed to get involved in it. And when we called a meeting with the boys AND us, she came, but spent the whole time looking out the window at her other son, and then got up and left because her baby (a few months old) was napping at home alone and she couldn't leave her any longer. The teachers know they're fighting a losing battle with the parents because the parents don't want to deal with it, or don't want to believe their kid is bullying someone. And you can't get therapy for a kid without the parents' involvement...they have to agree to it and make it happen, and they just won't. Those poor kids grow up and don't know which end is up or what's appropriate and what's not.
Yep, too many parents think their kids are perfect and it must be someone else's fault. They think your kid is asking for it. I can't believe she left a little baby home napping alone. I would carry the baby monitor with me outside if I was even in the garden.
 

MySmallWorldof4

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So I can pick my fast passes on Sept. 7th. 60 days before check in. Are you saying I should select my magic band colors THAT day as well? Re. the money, my balance is not due until Oct. 7th....30 days before check in. Does that sound correct? They'll send the magic bands before they get their money???
You can select the magic bands now I think. They sent ours about 3-4 weeks before our trip. You can change your mind about color up until they say the time period has ended for choosing colors. We had a hotel, actually a Fort Wilderness camping site reservation, so we didn't have to pay the balance prior to arrival, but I always like to pay trips off ahead of time. We got our Mb's like I said almost a month before we arrived. Since you have a package they will probably send your bands at the 30 day window.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
Hypothetical question..... you have a second floor apartment. It's 5:30 on a school morning and your preschool aged kid is still asleep. You've packed all your work things and their school things and are otherwise ready to go. You need to take all the things to the car, and take the dogs out on a leash to go to the bathroom, which would all be easier and less time consuming if you did them before waking the kid up.

Would you walk the dogs down to use the restroom and put the bags in the car while the kid is still sleeping? Or would you wait for the kid to be awake so they wouldn't be alone in the house?
 

MySmallWorldof4

Well-Known Member
Hypothetical question..... you have a second floor apartment. It's 5:30 on a school morning and your preschool aged kid is still asleep. You've packed all your work things and their school things and are otherwise ready to go. You need to take all the things to the car, and take the dogs out on a leash to go to the bathroom, which would all be easier and less time consuming if you did them before waking the kid up.

Would you walk the dogs down to use the restroom and put the bags in the car while the kid is still sleeping? Or would you wait for the kid to be awake so they wouldn't be alone in the house?
I would wake the kid up because if she wakes up and no one is there, she will flip out most likely, possibly even opening the front door herself, and roaming around crying and looking for a parent, and then a neighbor hears and calls CPS on the parent that left their kid alone.
 

Cesar R M

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I was never sure the "no bullying" rules worked here. I think and I may be wrong, but it seems that a lot of youngsters are not taught how to deal with life that does get tougher as you get older. Not everyone is going to be nice to you. It does require getting a little bit of a tough skin to deal with those. There seemed to have also come a time where teachers really couldn't break up fights anymore because of litigation issues. I was told this my teacher friends of mine in NY. Kids need to learn better how to deal with their emotions and adults need to recognize when a kid is in emotional trouble. Of course those with autism are a different case.
Unlike Bullying...
A kid cannot go away that easily from a school. Bullies constantly roam and hunt for their prey.
Unlike being an adult, you can go away, use police..etc..
 

MySmallWorldof4

Well-Known Member
Unlike Bullying...
A kid cannot go away that easily from a school. Bullies constantly roam and hunt for their prey.
Unlike being an adult, you can go away, use police..etc..
Very true about kids and school and that is why there really needs to be a better way. As of yet, there isn't. Schools, parents, and psychologist/psychiatrists need to get involved. There is too much of a hands off approach. Kids also should be taught not to be afraid to tell an adult if they are being bullied, and adults need to take it more seriously than they do.
 

93boomer

Premium Member
You can select the magic bands now I think. They sent ours about 3-4 weeks before our trip. You can change your mind about color up until they say the time period has ended for choosing colors. We had a hotel, actually a Fort Wilderness camping site reservation, so we didn't have to pay the balance prior to arrival, but I always like to pay trips off ahead of time. We got our Mb's like I said almost a month before we arrived. Since you have a package they will probably send your bands at the 30 day window.
She’s right about the MBs! 👍🏻
 

Songbird76

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Yep, too many parents think their kids are perfect and it must be someone else's fault. They think your kid is asking for it. I can't believe she left a little baby home napping alone. I would carry the baby monitor with me outside if I was even in the garden.
I know!!! I was shocked. The one and only time I left my kids in the house when I was not there was to walk around the corner to check the progress of the playground they were building on our street. It was literally just a few yards away and I took the baby monitor with me. Now, that being said, our school really was very close....that was in the old building and it's only a block from my house, and I know they also lived in the neighborhood, so no one was TOO far from the school, but to leave your newborn ALONE in the house with no way to know if they woke up, and no way of knowing how long you were going to be gone, and where you couldn't be back in just a few seconds...I wouldn't do it. But, we're American and Europeans in my experience are a lot less....stressed? about that stuff. A lot of people leave their babies and small children while they nap to go to the grocery store. I never felt comfortable doing that...what if the house caught fire?

But yes, the consesus seemed to be it was my kid who needed to change his behavior. And I agreed that he did, and we were working on that, but I didn't see it as being the REASON he was bullied. Not like he DESERVED that because of his behavior. He wasn't hurting anyone. He needed to change it because it wasn't effective and wasn't healthy for him, not because it was WRONG or hurtful to someone.
 

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
Hypothetical question..... you have a second floor apartment. It's 5:30 on a school morning and your preschool aged kid is still asleep. You've packed all your work things and their school things and are otherwise ready to go. You need to take all the things to the car, and take the dogs out on a leash to go to the bathroom, which would all be easier and less time consuming if you did them before waking the kid up.

Would you walk the dogs down to use the restroom and put the bags in the car while the kid is still sleeping? Or would you wait for the kid to be awake so they wouldn't be alone in the house?
In Europe or in the US? Over here, I'd take the baby monitor and go do what I needed to do. In the US, I wouldn't dare, because some neighbor would probably be watching and the second I stepped out the front door, they'd be calling CPS on me. But it also depends on how far I would have to go to take the dogs...if it was more than a block, I wouldn't do it, and if I didn't have a baby monitor, I wouldn't chance it. But, if it was just down stairs and to the corner, and I had a monitor, I'd do that here, but not in the US.
 

Songbird76

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Someone please cut off this water (rain)!! We can’t take much more!!! Alberto go away already!! 😡
I wish we could have some more here, because it did cool things down last night, but then got hot again today. I probably shoudln't wish for that though...some areas over here flooded badly and had a lot of damage. Trees uprooted, there was a woman stuck on TOP of her car for hours because she apparently drove down into a viaduct to avoid the rain or something...her car got stuck and she had to climb out and sit on top of her car. One guy's car was under a big tree, completely smashed. We didn't seem to get any of the really bad stuff.
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/laa...-regenval-dat-wordt-een-hoop-verzekeringswerk
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nederland/...rovincies-incidenten-in-het-hele-land-vanwege
 

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